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  Zeuthen biography
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen's father was the minister in Grimstrup where his son was born and began his education.
Zeuthen's papers and books, on the other hand, present deep mathematical analyses of the methods found in classical works mostly from antiquity and from the 16th and 17th centuries in an attempt to capture their fundamental ideas.
[Zeuthen] was in many ways a leading light of the burgeoning intellectual life of his country, and with a selfless and generous disposition he seems happily to deserve Coolidge's epithet of the "ever kindly".
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Zeuthen.html   (865 words)

  
 References for Zeuthen
M Caveing, The debate between H G Zeuthen and H Vogt (1909-1915) on the historical source of the knowledge of irrational quantities, Centaurus 38 (2-3) (1996), 277-292.
J Hjelmslev, Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen, Address given before the Matematisk Forening on the occasion of the celebration of the 100th birthday of H G Zeuthen (Danish), Mat.
J Lützen and W Purkert, Conflicting tendencies in the historiography of mathematics : M Cantor and H G Zeuthen, in The history of modern mathematics III (Boston, MA, 1994), 1-42.
www.gap-system.org /~history/References/Zeuthen.html   (157 words)

  
 Zeuthen
Chasles's theory of the characteristics of conic systems but also presented new points of view: for the elementary systems under consideration, he first ascertained the numbers for point or line conics in order to employ them to determine the characteristics.
Theodorus's proof somehow involved the continued fractions for 17 and 19, a conjecture which is very much in line with modern ideas about Greek mathematics.
[Zeuthen] was in many ways a leading light of the burgeoning intellectual life of his country, and with a selfless and generous disposition he seems happily to deserve
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Zeuthen.htm   (715 words)

  
 Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen Summary
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (15 February 1839 – 6 January1920) was a Danish mathematician.
He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.
Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
www.bookrags.com /Hieronymus_Georg_Zeuthen   (144 words)

  
 Zeuthen (print-only)
He began to write on mechanics and he also made significant contributions to algebraic geometry, particularly the theory of algebraic surfaces.
Caveing, in [3], looks at Zeuthen's ideas on the discovery of irrational numbers.
In [7] Lützen and Purkert compare the historical approaches of Moritz Cantor and Zeuthen.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Printonly/Zeuthen.html   (794 words)

  
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